Overview
- Cheran announced Ayya – The Lion of Tamil Nadu on Ramadoss’s 87th birthday, unveiling four first-look posters on X.
- Aari Arujunan has been cast to portray Dr. S. Ramadoss in the biopic.
- The film will trace Ramadoss’s leadership of the 1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation that resulted in a 20% quota by 1989.
- GKM Tamil Kumaran’s Tamil Kumaran Productions is producing the project with financing from Lyca Productions, but no release date has been confirmed.
- The launch comes against the backdrop of an ongoing leadership dispute between Ramadoss and his son Anbumani Ramadoss within the PMK.